The cool autumn has slowed things down considerably. Bessera elegans, just a few years ago so hard to find and now at most gardens centres, opened a few days ago. Easy to grow but difficult to store dry as the bulbs are so small and they will tolerate no winter moisture, at least here. It would be of interest to know how others store them and how early they plant them.
They are a magnet for slugs, one night alone I picked 14 slugs (not the huge banana slugs but the nasty small flesh-coloured ones) off the badly damaged leaves, resolved by placing the pot up on a trough.
Lucky Luit cycling past a field of these!
johnw
